Volunteer
Volunteer Inquiries:
Thank you for wanting to help the foster children at Joshua House by volunteering!
- Front Desk Volunteers: Greet guests, answer the phone and help with other projects as needed. Three openings: Wednesdays 9am – 12:30pm, Fridays 9am – 12:30pm (just for the summer) and “Fill in” when regular volunteers are not available.
- Donation Center Volunteers: Are you super organized and like to have a place for everything – and everything in its place? We have the perfect volunteer opportunity for YOU! Sort & inspect incoming donations, organize and put away in our donation center, label shelves and make notes! The perfect Donation Diva will be available 2 days per week, 2-4 hours per day.
Bonus: In December, Donation Divas become full-time elves and make the holidays happy for hundreds of foster kids! - Event Planning Committee Members: We need a few special volunteers to join our event planning committees and help us create special events, secure sponsors, auction items, and ticket sales as well as help us promote our events to the community.
- Interns: For details and how to apply Click Here.
- Pick-up & Delivery Volunteers: We are blessed to have Chick-fil-A and KFC donate to us every week, but we need to pick up from their locations in Lutz and bring to Joshua House every Monday & Friday. Need a volunteer or two to help with this several times per month – or once per week, if available.
- Cooking “Classes” – Want to share your cooking tips and easy recipe(s) with our kids? We need a few small groups of volunteers – 2-3 people – to teach a cooking class to a small group of our kids, usually 4-6. The volunteer group would be responsible for planning the menu, organizing the preparation & execution of the cooking (who will do what). Volunteers need to be over 18, have experience cooking and be available evenings or weekends. You and your friends/co-workers can do this just once or on an on-going basis.
Please note: The purchase of ingredients would be the responsibility of the volunteers, although we may have some items available. Cost is reimbursable. - Life Skills Training: Do you or your organization have experience with training teens or young adults on “life skills”? Financial/budgeting, Wellness/Stress relief, Career Exploration, job skills? This is an important part of our program for our teenagers, and we love to have community experts connect with our teens.
- Recycling: 1 hour or less per week. Someone to come in once per week on a weekday to collect recycling from the 2 buildings/4 offices and bring to our on-site recycling dumpster. Also handle 2-3 garbage bins and bring to our on-site trash dumpster. Perfect for a quick, after-school project. Wednesdays are best, but day is flexible, M-F.
- Sewing Help: We need volunteers to sew Santa/Birthday Sacks (CLICK HERE for instructions)
If we do not have any opportunities for you at this time, we will add your email to our distribution list and will contact you with volunteer opportunities when they arise. Currently, we do not have any individual volunteering opportunities working directly with the children.
Also, please note: We are unable to accommodate short-term volunteers needing hours for college classes or community service. Although we appreciate your interest, we do not have the staff to train/supervise short-term volunteers. Thank you for understanding.
Thank you again for supporting our mission!
